Example sentences of "[vb infin] [vb pp] [adv prt] [prep] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yeah because the other thing is that although erm you might have all these sort of high flying ideas about what you wan na do and you do n't actually feel tied down by a relationship , actually you do live your life thinking well ca n't really do that because I wan na be with him . |
| 2 | Scamp had done thirteen months of a two-year stretch and he could 've got out in a coupla months more if he 'd kept his nose clean . |
| 3 | In July 1990 , he grabbed the last qualifying place for the World Championship cycle in a hard-fought tournament in Manila by defeating Mikhail Gurevich , one of Kasparov 's former trainers , in the final game from a position most players would have given up as a draw . |
| 4 | Bourgeois , even liberal , France , would never have given up without a fight . |
| 5 | ‘ Meaning , I suppose , that I 'd have fallen over in a swoon ? ’ |
| 6 | On the bedside table , he was in the act of placing a Bible , so that he may have dropped off into a doze while reading it . |
| 7 | If Dire Straits had n't been so successful , would you have carried on as a circuit band , or would you have gone back to teaching or journalism ? |
| 8 | In any other season you could have looked down from a ridge just below the pastures where the sheep were grazing and seen the village in miniature , a doll 's farm set in a patchwork of agricultural land that spread across the valley floor . |
| 9 | Connors said the guy must have curled up into a ball and hidden in a waste-basket . |
| 10 | I 'll have booked in for a course in Bristol starting in September — an art course , no one cares what art students look like — or drama maybe . |
| 11 | ‘ She might have come in with a boyfriend . |
| 12 | There was nothing to worry about : if there had been , the fuzz would have come in with a warrant . |
| 13 | They must have come out of a back entrance to the flats and they were intent on avoiding somebody , although I 'd seen nothing suspicious when I 'd cruised down Seymour Place . |
| 14 | Westward had recently been the scene of a public boardroom row that could have come out of a TV series . |
| 15 | This may have come about as a result of a phase of shifting settlement gradually giving way to greater stability , so that when land boundaries ( some of which may have also become parish boundaries ) were formed the earlier settlements may , purely by chance , occur at a distance to later ones and are therefore more likely to lie near boundaries ( see also , Welch 1985 , pp. 18–21 ) . |
| 16 | But most readers of this book will have grown up in a society in which the major comparable distinction is between kin and non-kin , and in which it is assumed , or even insisted upon , that kin relationships ought not to enter into the non-kin sphere at all . |
| 17 | I may have dozed off for a while . |
| 18 | The way the ground just curled up at the edges until you lost sight of it , we could n't have crept up on a hunk of soya . ’ |
| 19 | Expenditure on the programme will have built up to a minimum of £200,000 a year by 1986/87 . |
| 20 | ‘ You 'd both have got on like a house on fire . |
| 21 | It must have spewed out as a gas — a blindingly hot gas . ’ |
| 22 | " Did he die almost immediately , or is there any possibility that he could have walked about for a time , even locked the door and set the alarms ? " |
| 23 | The issue of homelessness is at the heart of the movie but Lane manages to integrate it within a storyline which could quite easily have walked out of a Charlie Chaplin film of 70 years ago . |
| 24 | And in fact some of the the erm the that you look at now , could have walked out of a Dickens novel . |
| 25 | Farrar was educated at the Rev. Thomas Arnold 's private oral school at Northampton and was a child prodigy who passed both the London University and Cambridge University examinations by the time he was 17 , and could no doubt have gone on towards a degree had he been inclined to do so . |
| 26 | Experts said that if the bombs had penetrated any part of the cigar-shaped cylinders they would have gone off like a rocket , smashing into nearby homes . |
| 27 | Something must have come up , and she must have gone off in a hurry . |
| 28 | And he said : ‘ That mob could have gone in against a team containing Mike Tyson and Joe Frazier and looked after themselves . |
| 29 | But Blades manager Dave Bassett reflected on his early days in charge of Vinny Jones and Co. at Wimbledon and said : ‘ That mob could have gone in against a team containing Mike Tyson and Joe Frazier and looked after themselves . |
| 30 | ‘ Would he have gone out on a limb for anyone other than David ? |